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The documentary 'Flophouse America' looks at an American family living below the poverty line in a cheap hotel.
"Invisible America" is a poignant film that delves into the harsh realities of poverty in the United States. Through compelling visual storytelling without narration, it exposes the hopelessness ...
As the film opens, a matter-of-fact, unemotional voice shares statistics about children living with poverty, parental abuse and alcoholism in the United States, as the numbers flash in simple ...
Why do a billion people still live in poverty worldwide, and what can be done to change this? The series <a href="http://www.whypoverty.net/" target="_blank">Why ...
Price of Poverty in Kentucky is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku ...
This new series of hard-hitting documentaries offers insights into the nature and extent of contemporary poverty. Each film explores an area of England and records the stories of people who ...
The film begins with a statistic read by Mikal: “The official poverty rate in the U.S. is 11.5%, meaning that approximately 34 million people live in poverty.” And this one: “Many low-income ...
Following the unprecedented success of Why Democracy? and Why Poverty? The Why is launching a series of ground-breaking documentary films which asks why slavery remains so endemic in the 21st ...
Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary ... One in 10 parents living in poverty told how their child had been bullied as ...
A new BIRN documentary shows how money laundering has been increasing poverty, prices and income inequality in Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro. Kosovo outgoing Minister of Justice Albulena Haxhiu ...
is hosting a debate about contemporary poverty with Why Poverty? – a set of ground-breaking international documentaries screening from November. The global cross-media event, produced in ...